Blog Posts

  • National Poetry Month – Link Roundup

    It’s National Poetry Month again, and I am bringing you a few cool links to events and ideas that are inspiring me this April. What happens when you gather together a bunch of politically active artists? The Poetic Address to the Nation. Happening on April 22, at 7pm, this event is an artists’ compilation of…

  • Finding inspiration despite and still

    It’s been a while. Like a lot of people, I found writing incredibly difficult in the last year, and what I did write was more private processing than blog-worthy and interesting. Also like many of us, I have had an intermittently hard time giving myself grace when it felt like I was ignoring my writer-identity,…

  • An Open Letter of Thanks to Senator Elizabeth Warren

    Dear Senator Warren, Thank you. Thank you for the small things, like hiring staff for your senatorial office who demonstrate the same level of graciousness, dedication, and desire to help that you show daily. I’ve interacted with many of them on advocacy days down on Capitol Hill in the last several years, and it’s always…

  • Literary Podcasts: My Current Favorites

    I spend a lot of time on the road these days, and though I never used to be much of a podcast listener, I’ve become a convert, largely thanks to these several podcasts that keep me company on my peregrinations: For a short thoughtful dose of poetry The Slowdown, with Tracie K. Smith – a…

  • Poets and Political Power

    I’m really interested to see the results of the Poetry Coalition’s project “What is it, then, between us?: Poetry & Democracy.” I heard about it through MassPoetry’s call for participants, and while I didn’t get my submission in on time, I’m looking forward to reading and admiring the artistic erasure poems created from some iconic…